Bernard R. Barkan v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying appellant’s motion made pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, to vacate and set aside his sentence. The motion was denied without a hearing by District Judge Omer Poos. On this appeal, petitioner was permitted to proceed in forma pauperis and the case was considered by us on the briefs without oral argument.
Petitioner’s Section 2255 motion was properly addressed to Judge Poos who had sentenced petitioner upon his conviction of bank robbery. However, petitioner filed simultaneously what he called a “contemporaneous…
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